If you grew up in the '60s, '70s or '80s, you likely have fond memories spending Saturday afternoons at a dark arcade surrounded by the dings, clunks, whizzes and zings of a classic pinball machine.

When you’re talking bumpers, flippers and gobble holes, you might not immediately picture a woman releasing the plunger. At least you didn’t a decade ago when an Oakland player decided to make the ...

Santo Cordero smooths decals on the cabinets of pinball machines at the Stern Pinball Factory in Elk Grove Village, Illinois, on Feb. 22, 2024. E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune/TNS CHICAGO — Due ...

Chicago — Due west of O’Hare International Airport, there is a neighborhood — formally, part of Elk Grove Village — that isn’t much of a neighborhood. It’s warehouses, drab gray offices. It’s Gertrude ...

When you spend a great deal of time in the car graveyards of the world, as I do, you learn that many interesting items take their final tow-truck ride to Ewe Pullet inside the doomed vehicles. Usually ...

Once banned as a form of gambling and later nearly wiped out by video games, pinball has survived nearly a century of moral panic, cultural change, and technological upheaval. Now, in the era of ...

The Pacific Northwest is often hailed as a haven for pinball enthusiasts, but inland communities are just beginning to embrace this culture Brent Bowen started playing pinball as a kid in the ...

Once upon a time in this occasionally great nation of ours, many cruel, ignorant local governments oppressed its peoples by – please brace yourself for the inconceivable, undeniable, deeply unpleasant ...

Melanie Tarrant has been playing pinball competitively for about 10 months and can vividly recall her first tournament. "My very first tournament was against this guy who has his own pinball podcast ...